I’ve been using SwiftKey for over a decade now, and I didn’t really realize how potentially horrible it is for privacy. What are some good alternatives you guys can suggest, ideally open source?

My ideal keyboard includes swipe to type and a notepad (to paste certain emoticons like shrug emoji and such).

Thank you!

Edit, for any future lemmings/internet people who want the definitive answer (so far, as of October '23), OpenBoard works great.

Download the latest release apk from here

And if you want swipe typing as well,

Download the “libjni_latinimegoogle.so” file onto your phone from here

Then when you open OpenBoard, go to Advanced and select “Load gesture typing library”. When it asks you to select a file, select the “libjni” file and swiping should work just fine.

  • aurele
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve sent them a main as well this morning. The dictionaries apk are also only available using http.

    • Anbalsilfer@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I just noticed I received a reply, two days ago:

      Google had added some new contraints and we just updated the several of our language modules. We updated English, French and German, the most popular ones, for now. English and French are available now and German is in review.

      Please, if you can, give it a try and see if the problem is rectified.

      So apparently the support is still active.

    • aureleFrançais
      1·
      1 year ago

      And I got a reply: “we are working on it”. This is great news, let’s see what hapens!